Hello,
I have a quick question for you all.  One feature that I really like in painter is being able to have preset brushes placed in a personal pallete at the bottom of the screen.  Therefore, I can just click on that brush and I know exactly what I'm getting, and it's really quick.  For photoshop, I always have to go into the default brushes and select one that's close, then adjust it every time to my liking.  This slows down my work flow quite a bit.  Is there a way to do something similar to painter, so I can select preset brushes that i have set up just like I want them and separate them from the default brushes?  Thanks for your help.

No problem. When you've adjusted your brush how you like it, open the brush palette and click the little arrow on the top right. In the flyout there's an entry (right at the top in CS4) which says 'New brush preset'. Click that and you can create a new preset for the brush with all the settings you've applied.

These will be lost once you close PS, so to save them open the flyout again and choose 'Save brushes'. This will save the current palette into a new preset file you can reopen whenever you want to. Note that it will save all the brushes in the palette - if you just want to save the new one, you'll have to delete the other brushes first.

Steve

ok, great, I'll give this a try

Will it keep the flow and opacity as well?  Or does that never get kept?

You mean in the top toolbar when you select a brush? Don't think it keeps that for individual brushes. Just between sessions.

Steve

Also, lets say that I've deleted all but a couple of brushes.  and want to add another brush.  Is there a way to do that besides adding all the original brushes again?  Can I copy one I've made and put it in there?

Yes, just edit one of the existing two brushes and save it as a new preset.

Steve

Then it will still have saved the old brush that I did?

Should do, as long as you saved the brush as a new preset. But it's easy to check, just give it a try.

Steve